Sunday 29th September 2024
From 5.30pm

A Social Undertaking
25 Gresham Street, Adelaide (off Hindley St)

The first Spoke N Slurred at our new, temporary home at the fantastic laneway bar – A Social Undertaking.

** Spoken word OPEN MIC
** FREE entry
** Book raffle
** Booze, booze and more booze

Guest performer: Apolo

APOLO god of prophecy, music and healing, offers his wisdom as a link between gods and man alike. With an intellect as far reaching as the arrows shot from a silver bow, he is said to be the first god to teach mortals the healing arts including that of poetry. It is thought that he is to help humans achieve their full potential with his gifts of enlightenment. When man journeyed to the heavens, they fittingly named their mission to the moon Apolo, after the god who inspired mankind to reach for the stars.

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Sunday 25th August 2024
from 5.30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide SA 5000

FREE ENTRY
Spoken word OPEN MIC
Book raffle
Cheap booze

Guest performer AVALANCHE

“Why Avalanche? Because it’s a force of nature and does whatever it wants to, including reshaping stuff, the ultimate landscaper. Depending on the day of the week, it could also be a Leonard Cohen reference. Gotta love the Leonard! It’s a name I came up with for myself a few hundred years ago, kinda like them Apache chiefs of old – see, they’d get given a name when they were kids, and then change it as they grew up. I was kind of a molehill when I was little, apparently… Now I’m a mountain getting its rocks off!!!!”

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Sunday 28 July 2024
from 5.30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

FREE ENTRY
Spoken word OPEN MIC
Book raffle
Cheap booze

Guest Tegan Sabine: When Tegan took their first wobbly steps at eleven-months-old, they had no idea they’d be stepping on so many stages. When they wrote their name backwards and barely legible in kindergarten, they had no clue they’d dedicate decades to words. Today, they’re still tripping on their toes, and scrawly in their scribings. Tegan has been writing poetry since thirteen, and performing since nineteen. They’ve shared their work at open mics and slams all over Adelaide in the seven years since.

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Sunday 30th June 2024
from 5.30pm.

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

SPOKEN WORD OPEN MIC 
FREE ENTRY 
Book raffle
Cheap booze

Koraly Dimitriadis will be joining us as part of her national tour of Australia + New Zealand, launching her new poetry book, She’s Not Normal. Koraly is a bestselling Cypriot-Australian poet of the poetry books Love and Fk Poems (also translated into Greek) and Just Give Me The Pills. Her debut short story collection The Mother Must Die, is forthcoming with Puncher and Wattmann in 2024. She also makes films and theatre with her poems, and her latest film Yiayia mou (my grandmother) is currently streaming on SBS. In 2019 she was the recipient of the UNESCO City of Literature residency in Krakow for her debut fiction manuscript. Koraly’s opinion articles and essays have been published widely across Australia with international publications in The Washington Post, The Guardian and Aljazeera.

See more about Koraly and her work at: https://koralydimitriadis.com/

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Sunday 26 May 2024
from 5.30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
Cheap booze

Matilda is an old Teutonic name meaning ‘mighty battle maid’, it also refers to a swag and she’s coming out waltzing. Unpublished and unapologetic, Matilda brings a poetic license to her works. A spirit of life imitating art, or is the other way around? Performing pieces on her feet and hands, come witness the spoken word stylings of Matilda.

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Sunday 28 April 2024
from 5.30pm

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
Cheap booze

Sarah Pearce is a poet, editor and researcher from Tarndanya (Adelaide). Her work has been published in various journals and anthologies, including Best of Australian Poems 2023. She has performed at festivals, held residencies locally and interstate and is currently completing a Literary Fellowship at the State Library of South Australia, experimenting with found poetry and ecopoetics. She writes about embodiment, the Gothic, queer experience, mental and physical health and the environment.

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Sunday 24 March 2024
from 5.30pm
[ one week early due to Easter ]

Broadcast Bar
66A Grote Street, Adelaide

OPEN MIC
FREE ENTRY
Book raffle
Cheap booze

Liam Wooley is an emerging musician and poet currently living in Tarntarnya (Adelaide), South Australia. He writes and speaks to anyone who’ll read and listen about a range of different topics, including but not limited to love in all its forms, the process of writing, human rights, and living despite, at times, the best efforts of your body. He’s currently taking time off regular work for health reasons and hasn’t updated his resume in a while, but when he does it’ll include things like “former reader of books during English class that weren’t on the syllabus”, “maker of new friends on public transport”, and “hopeless romantic”, and he will forever defend putting that last one in the “strengths” paragraph. He had one poem published in a journal at 16 and nothing since, but is looking to publish a collection of his work some time in the near future.

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